Sales Manager

Negotiable
Experience
Unlimited
Job Type
Full Time
Location
Saudi Arabia, Riyad
Job Description

Travel is a journey. We help make it
a joy.

 

style="margin-left:0px;">Starting with a warm, inviting welcome for all
guests, whether traveling on business or for fun, enjoying a quick night,
or relaxing for the week. We thrive on making our guests stays brighter, helping
them create memories that will last a lifetime. Irresistible smiles are our
specialty. We should know, we’ve been on our journey since 1952.

So if you can help us spread the joy of travel to all, we’d love to give you
a warm welcome to the Holiday Inn® family.

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What
is the job?

 

style="margin-left:0px;">The position is accountable for soliciting and handling
sales opportunities. Ensures business is turned over properly and in a timely
fashion for proper service delivery. Conducts day-to-day activities related
to sales with a focus on building long-term, value-based customer relationships
that enable achievement of sales objectives. To analyse local market trends
and competitor activity to recommend strategies that keep the hotel a leader
in the marketplace through the development of future and repeat business.

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A Little
Taste Of Your Day-to-day

 

style="margin-left:0px;">Every day is different at IHG, but you’ll mostly
be:

 


Identify and develop potential clients in specified offline segments
and incorporate into Sales Pipelines

• Acquire
thorough knowledge of respective accounts and their hospitality needs

style="margin-left:0px;">• Promote all the hotel’s products and services

style="margin-left:0px;">• Conduct regular planned sales visitations
to respective accounts

• Understand client
requirements and ensure that the products and services offered correspond
effectively to their request

• Provide
after-sales service and ensure that all client feedback is taken seriously
and escalated to relevant top management if necessary

style="margin-left:0px;">• Meet and exceed given Top-line Revenue objectives


• Achieve set revenue targets for respective
segments

• Ensure cost effective sales
activities are practices at all times

• Work
to increasing hotel profitability with higher yielding rates and lower cost
of sales

• Ensure accurate and timely reporting
on the market and competitor information


Ensure accurate and timely reporting in sales activities, sales pipelines
and all other assigned reports and task

• Ensure
team productivity by achieving sales visitation targets as well as other
assigned sales activities such as telemarketing and canvassing

style="margin-left:0px;">• Any other duties and responsibilities as and when
directed by the General Manager as deemed necessary, relevant and related in
the course of work

 

style="margin-left:0px;">What we need from you :

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Minimum of 2-3
years Sales experience in 5* Hotel property· Hospitality degree or equivalent ·
Excellent customer relations, problem solving and time management skills ·
Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office and Opera Sales · Proven ability
to creating new business opportunities · Assertive, professional and positive
with a proven ability to develop in a team environment · Must be able to work
independently and maintain a positive attitude within a very busy environment ·
Valid driver's license is preferred.

 


What we offer :

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In return we'll
give you a competitive financial and benefits package and the chance to work
with a great team of people. Most importantly, we'll give you the Room to
be yourself.

So what's your passion? Please get in touch if this position matches your skills
and interests and tell us how you could bring your individual competencies.
At IHG we are committed to developing our team and managing our talent and
would encourage internal as well as external candidates to apply for any of our
vacancies. We are an equal opportunities employer.

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Join us
and you’ll become part of the family – and like all families, all our individual
team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better
together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome
different perspectives. - visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more
about us.